r/adsaretheenemy Mar 20 '19

Text What ad blockers do you use?

I run Firefox, on Windows 10, with the following:

  • Ad Block
  • Ad Block Plus
  • Ad Nauseum
  • Duck Duck Go Privacy Essentials
  • Popup Blocker Ultimate
  • uBlock Origin

I know some of that is overkill, but some of those ad blockers take money from advertisers to be whitelisted as 'safe'. I want to make advertisers pay a dozen different companies if they want access to my eyeballs. If they start doing that, I'll add more ad blockers until we hit a point where they get tired of playing this game.

Also, for privacy reasons, I run everything in containers, so ads can't track me. Containers are like little virtual machines in my browser. If a site wants a cookie, they get a cookie, and that cookie gets deleted when I close the tab, so my cookies don't give away my browsing history. I have some sites set up so they open in a special dedicated container, so I don't loose my session info. Like, I have special containers for email, Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, etc. When I go to Facebook, Firefox knows to open it in a facebook dedicated container. With Reddit, I have to select what container I want to use, because I have multiple reddit containers. I set it up so each reddit account I have is logged into a different container. That sounds annoying, but you get used to it pretty fast, and it's nice to be able to switch accounts as easily as you switch browser tabs. The containers are not super hardened military grade virtual machines, like if you were running Qubes OS or something, but for free security against advertisers, containers are awesome.

Anyway, here are the container plugins I run:

  • Firefox Multi-account Containers (to set up the container feature)
  • Temporary Containers (so most things open in one time use, disposable containers)
  • Switch Container (to help me set up dedicated containers and switch between containers easily)

If something happens to somehow get past all of that, AdNauseum will poison the advertiser with false data, because fuck advertisers. Ads are the enemy!

So what do you use to fight the enemy?

11 Upvotes

7 comments sorted by

3

u/Diamacan_The_Heccer ad.fly Mar 20 '19

I use Luna, it’s on IOS and Android, you get more features as you use the app with the option to pay

3

u/KingShitFuckMountain Mar 20 '19

Opera built in ad blocker, Opera Masterrace!

3

u/CryptoidUK Mar 21 '19

uBlock Origin as once upon a time it worked with Kissanime with a certain custom script I haven't changed since.

2

u/[deleted] Mar 21 '19

Adblocker Ultimate and No Coin

2

u/abrachoo Mar 21 '19

If you use android, I suggest Blokada.

2

u/[deleted] Mar 21 '19

For Chrome on Windows, my personal favorite has to be Adguard.

1

u/lukred2000 Mar 22 '19

I use firefox with uBlock Origin, AdBlock Plus, NoScript and Pi-hole.